TikTok trend search costs $0.10 a query on Sume: a 50-search budget

Sume's trending-videos search costs $0.10 per accepted call. The docs say each accepted call reserves and captures that amount, and the price includes summary_mode: metadata. Fifty searches therefore cost $5.00.

Budget table

The docs describe one per-call price. They add that the cache can serve repeat browse calls so that they do not hit the upstream source again.

What you get for the price

The MVP supports TikTok only. A search takes a query (brand, product, creator or keyword) and a time window from yesterday through all-time, and returns ranked videos. The docs say known profiles may return fewer results than the limit instead of padding weak matches. Transcript summaries and download or mirroring are not supported.

A research budget in context

A typical research pass might be five themes searched across three windows, which is 15 calls and $1.50. Compared with generation, that is cheap: it is less than three 5-second Wan 720p clips. The risk is not the price but the habit of re-running the same search. Save the output in your own storage the first time.

The reserve and capture happen per accepted call, so a call that is rejected for a bad request, for example an unsupported platform value, is not an accepted call. Check the response before you budget on that assumption.

Spending it well

• Search once per theme and save the result; a repeat search is another $0.10 unless the cache serves it, and the cache is not something to budget on.
• Use the narrowest window that answers the question. The default for other queries is this month.
• Check the live price in GET /v1/catalog, since the docs themselves point there for confirmation.